Doesn't mean that it's a good idea. When you feed food to food, you waste a lot of food. That's the meat, dairy and eggs industry. Conversion ratios vary, but they're terrible and, by the simple laws of physics, can't beat just eating plants.

universal purpose vegetable based butter

That is what did happen, but it turns out that hydrogenation causing trans fats isn't good for health. Fun fact: ruminant milk, especially from "grass fed", can contain up to 10% trans fats because the bacteria inside can do a natural hydrogenation too.

Vegetable oil is the best option for calories, but it's also boring, so the staples for food security have been: grain flour + vegetable oil + sugar.

Here's some relevant history: https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/naval-blockade-of-germany/

and a more modern article tied to the same topic: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/troy-vettese-do-not-let-them-eat-meat/

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I lack the appeal to invest myself into a conversation that will return a zero sum outcome.

It's the College of Cardiologists, in my country, that actively recommends the use of vegetable based butter as a source of safe fats.

This isn't a body easy to get public suport from and false advertising is severely punished in my country, so I risk I'm fairly well informed and safe to eat my vegetable based butter and recommend it to others. And it is vegan safe.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I don't disagree, I'm just pointing out that hydrogenated fat ("margarine") is a problem.

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-021-01961-2/figures/1

Multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios of total and cardiometabolic mortality for 1-tablespoon/day increment in cooking oil/fat consumption. Forest plots show the multivariable HRs of total (a) and cardiometabolic (b) mortality associated with 1-tablespoon/day increment in butter, margarine, corn oil, canola oil, and olive oil consumption. HRs were adjusted for age, sex, BMI, race, education, marital status, household income, smoking, alcohol, vigorous physical activity, usual activity at work, perceived health condition, history of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer at baseline, Healthy Eating Index-2015, total energy intake, and consumption of remaining oils where appropriate (butter, margarine, lard, corn oil, canola oil, olive oil, and other vegetable oils). Horizontal lines represent 95% CIs